Matters India Reporter New Delhi: Pope Francis on March 13 appointed Archbishop Leopoldo Girelli, an Italian prelate, as the new apostolic nuncio to India. The appointment was announced at noon Rome time, corresponding to 4:30 pm in India. Archbishop Girelli was the nuncio to Israel and Cyprus and apostolic delegateContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Ajmer: A Catholic priest, who recently assaulted his bishop, has been suspended, according to a letter from the victim prelate. In a letter to Father Varghese Palappallil, Bishop Pius Thomas D’Souza of Ajmer cited the second section of Canon law 1370 to inform his priest assaulterContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Ajmer: A Catholic priest of Ajmer diocese, currently facing sexual abuse allegation, has physically attacked his bishop, says a message from the vicar general. The March 9 message from Father Cosmos Shekhawat terms as “very unfortunate” the attack that took place in the Bishop’s House twoContinue Reading
By Irudhaya Jothi Siliguri: A convention was organised with starving people of North Bengal on March 10 under the aegis of Right To Food and Work Campaign of West Bengal. The representatives from people’s associations, grassroots movements, rural NGOs and welfare societies registered their participation under the banner of theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kolkata: Father Rodney Borneo, a popular priest of Calcutta archdiocese, on March 9 joined the Bharatiya Janata Party that heads the federal coalition government, according to a video clip circulating in social media platforms. The video shows Father Borneo coming to a stage where he isContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Thiruvananthapuram: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has held a Catholic priest and a nun responsible for the mysterious death of a 12-year-old girl at a Church center in Kerala ten years ago, report some online Malayalam news websites. The body of Shreya Benny, a seventhContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kolkata: A popular priest of Calcutta archdiocese has resigned as the principal of a prestigious school amid reports that he would soon join the pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party. Father Rodney Borneo, who was principal of Loyola High School for the past five years, on March 5Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: The release of an octogenarian Jesuit activist from jail is among several issues that a Catholic weekly wants the Church leaders in Kerala to raise with the BJP leaders who now woo the Christians in the southern Indian state. “We should loudly ask theContinue Reading
By Krishnadas Rajagopal New Delhi: The Supreme Court has held that residential accommodation for nuns near a convent and hostels for students attached to educational institutions can claim exemption from paying building tax in Kerala. A Bench led by Justice Rohinton Nariman, in a judgment on March 1, said aContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: Jesuit Archbishop William D’Souza, who retired recently as the head of Patna archdiocese, on March 1 became an assistant parish priest. Archbishop D’Souza, who on March 5 turns 75, the mandatory retirement age of bishops, is the new assistant pastor of St. Stephen’s church,Continue Reading